Republican Andy Ogles Has a Proven Conservative Track Record and deserves support.

Andy Ogles

by Rod Williams, Oct. 14, 2020- I am supporting Andy Ogles for the 5th Congressional District.  I am not in his district so can't vote for him, but I just sent a modest donation to his campaign. Supporting Republicans is nothing new; I always support Republicans. I am a lifelong conservative activist and the Republican Party best reflects my values and position on issues. My political allegiance has never been in doubt. 

This year, however, I have been more cautious about whom I support. On any checklist of issues, I agree with Republicans more than Democrats on all issues except one. I support the Constitutional peaceful transfer of power and oppose coup attempts. For me, this is the most important issue in this election. Despite no proof that the 2020 election was stolen, many Republican candidates continue to claim it was and refuse to condemn the attempted coup.  I cannot support these candidates. 

Some states are on the verge of putting in office people who supported the fake electors ploy or who are affiliated with militant groups that participated in the January 6th violent attempt to stop the certification of election results. I have contributed to the campaign of the Democrat opponent of some of these Republicans.  For the first time ever, I think this election cycle, I probably sent more money to Democrat candidates than Republican candidates. 

I am late deciding to support Ogles. I did not know where he stood on the issue that is most important to me. I have followed the campaign closely, however, and I have not heard Andy Ogles defend the Trump coup attempt or deny that Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. Ogles has been silent on this issue as far as I know.  I wish he would openly condemn the coup attempt, but I will accept silence.

Andy Ogles has a proven conservative record and I support his candidacy.  The following article profiles Andy Ogles and examines his record.

Prospective Incoming Republican Andy Ogles Has a Proven Conservative Track Record

by Adam Radman, Townhall, Oct 08, 2022- Election Day is a month away and most pundits expect Republicans to take back the House and possibly the Senate. A Morning Consult poll reveals that the electorate currently trusts Republicans more to handle the economy.

Who could have guessed record-high inflation and 87,000 new IRS agents are not what voters want from their elected officials while the country recovers from a pandemic? While one shouldn’t count their chickens before they hatch, it’s worth taking an early look at some of the new faces and personalities likely to prevail in November and arrive on Capitol Hill come January.

An examination of the prospective incoming class of new Republicans in Congress shows the GOP House caucus is poised to get some valuable new additions. 

Take Andy Ogles, the Republican nominee in Tennessee's fifth congressional district. Ogles, who was nicknamed Tennessee’s most conservative mayor, won a fiercely competitive GOP primary in Tennessee's Fifth congressional district, which included former House Speaker Beth Harwell and Retired National Guard Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead.

... Ogles can tout the fact that he played a key role in improving Tennessee’s tax climate, ... On the campaign trail, Ogles focuses on issues like government accountability, transparency, sanctity of life, and the Second Amendment. He's concerned with government overspending and government reform. Ogles signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in May during the Republican primary, committing to voters in writing to oppose and vote against all income tax hikes while in Congress. ... Ogles is expected to become a conservative leader in Congress in short order. ...  Ogles has a proven track record of accomplishment. (read it all)

For more about Andy Ogles visit his website. 

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These are the 13 Council Members who voted against funding Planned Parenthood

Rod Williams, Oct. 14, 2022- On Tuesday, October 4, the Metro Council voted to grant to Planned Parenthood a half-million dollars.  To read more about that, follow this link. The vote was 19 to 13 and three abstentions. 

These are the members who voted "no," voting against the grant. Some of these members are term-limited and can not seek reelection but some can. Some may seek higher office.   These people deserve to be thanked and supported. 

Voting "No" (13): Allen, Hall, Swope, Hancock, Young, Evans, Bradford, Druffel, Pulley, Johnston, Nash, Vercher, and Rutherford.

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These are the 19 Council Members who voted to fund Planned Parenthood.

Rod Williams, Oct. 13, 2022- On Tuesday, October 4, the Metro Council voted to grant to Planned Parenthood a half-million dollars.  To read more about that, follow this link. The vote was 19 to 13 and three abstentions. 

These are the members who voted "yes," voting in favor of the grant. Some of these members are term-limited and can not seek reelection but some can. Some are seeking higher office. Syracuse is seeking an at-large seat and Freddie O'Connell wants to be mayor.  These people deserve to be defeated. 

Yes (19): Mendes, Suara, Toombs, Parker, Withers, VanReece, Syracuse, Welsch, Sledge, Cash, O'Connell, Roberts, Hausser, Murphy, Porterfield, Sepulveda, Styles, Lee, and Rosenberg.

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A Davidson County Republican Party fundraiser, Shooting Stars, Oct. 29,2022

 

Saturday, October 29th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm

This is a major fundraising event for the DCRP to fund our GOTV efforts for election day in the November General Election. You have the opportunity to come out on a Saturday night, meet your friends, have some fun and to learn something about making your and your family's life safer.

To purchase your tickets click this link: DCRP Fun Shoot Tickets

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Metro Council approves a half-million dollar grant to fund Planned Parenthood.

This should have been the scene outside the Metro
Courthouse last Tuesday.

by Rod Williams, Oct. 12, 2022- Last Tuesday, the Metro Council passed a resolution to appropriate $500,000 to Planned Parenthood for contraception services, family planning counseling, and sex education. 

Originally, the resolution was going to include funding for travel expenses for women in Davidson County so they could travel out of state to get an abortion. That provision was removed after Metro Legal expressed concern that it would threaten Title X funding. Title X prohibits government funds from being used for abortion. 

Don't be fooled by this.  Organizations do not have funds in neat little lock boxes and only one thing is funded out of one box and something else out of another box.  All funds keep the lights on and pay the rent. A half million dollars from Metro will allow Planned Parenthood to perform more abortions. 

The vote was 19 to 13. Here is how members voted:

Yes (19): Mendes, Suara, Toombs, Parker, Withers, VanReece, Syracuse, Welsch, Sledge, Cash, O'Connell, Roberts, Hausser, Murphy, Porterfield, Sepulveda, Styles, Lee, and Rosenberg; 

No (13): Allen, Hall, Swope, Hancock, Young, Evans, Bradford, Druffel, Pulley, Johnston, Nash, Vercher, and Rutherford; 

Abstain (3): Hurt, Gamble, and Henderson

Notice that this vote was not overwhelmingly lop-sided. Four more members voting "no" and it would have failed. It matters who governs.  

If outraged pro-life citizens would have called their council members urging them to vote "no," there might have been four members who would have switched their vote.  Citizen involvement matters.

In my view, we need State action to prohibit any unit of government in Tennesee from funding any organization that advocates for abortion or has a chapter in another state that performs or funds abortion. Cities are chartered by the State.  Cities do not have sovereignty.  They may only do those things the state allows them to do. The State of Tennessee needs to keep Metro Nashville on a short leash.

Funding for this grant came from the budget of 14 metro departments and the Metro Pay Plan. Metro Parks, the Nashville Public Library, the Department of Health, and the Nashville Department of Transportation each lost $60,000 and $90,000 came from the pay plan. If you local park looks shabby or your local library has long lines to check out a book, remember this. The next time elected officials cry that Nashville is broke and we need another whopping tax increase, don't buy it.  If Metro can grant $500,000 to Planned Parenthood, Metro has too much money.

To read the resolution see:  RS2022-1734. Stay tuned for more on this issue. 

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A Rally to End Child Mutilation, October 21, 2022

by Rod Williams, Oct 21, 2022 - First they denied it. Now they’re trying to defend it. But we won’t allow it.

Join Matt Walsh and a lineup of speakers at a rally to end child mutilation, sterilization, and abuse in Tennessee hospitals and beyond.

“Gender-affirming care” is neither affirming nor care. In September, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh unveiled an alarming report on the use of irreversible—and harmful—puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries on healthy children at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Children should be able to trust their doctors, but are instead at the mercy

of a destructive ideology led by activists.

We Are Taking Action

On October 21, 2022, Matt will lead a Rally to End Child Mutilation at the TN state capitol (War Memorial Plaza) in Nashville, TN, to send a message to lawmakers everywhere that we will not stand

for this misguided barbarism. Your attendance at this rally will send a message to the entire nation that radical experimentation is not “medical care” as the left has claimed—it is child mutilation, and Americans will not allow it to continue.

Speakers

Matt Walsh: In January of this year Matt Walsh declared he would wage an all out war on radical gender ideology—and he meant it. The release of his DailyWire+ documentary, What Is A Woman? became an international sensation and sparked a global conversation. With this plague of child abuse continuing to grow, Matt led an investigation in his own backyard of Nashville, uncovering the so-called “gender-affirming care” happening at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. This type of care includes chemical castration drugs, synthetic hormones, and surgical interventions being administered to and performed on children who are still developing– all in the name of gender ideology.

More Speakers to be announced soon.

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Beacon's October Young Professionals Happy Hour and Networking Event

 

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Is MNPS Quietly Working To Take Away Parent’s Rights?

by Rod Williams, 10/11/2022 - Tennessee Conservative has posted an article to its webpage titled MNPS Quietly Working To Take Away Parent’s Rights. Basically what this is about is that instead of printing a student handbook, MNPS is going digital.  

The primary reason this matter, according to TC, is that the handbook had forms parents could use to opt out their child from participating in certain lessons. In addition to lessons, there are also some other things that it is assumed the child may participate in unless the parent opts out the child. Now, MNPS will be sending a single sheet of papers home containing urls to the opt-out forms online where parents can print the forms and fill them out and send them back to the school. I know not everyone has a computer or a printer, but parents who ask for a printed version of the handbook can still get one.

I think Tennessee Conservative is making a lot of to-do about nothing in this instance. If it were me, I would prefer digital.  I get my water bill, phone bill, electric bill, cable bill, gas bill, and insurance renewal bills all digital, and they are all paid by automatic draft. I get way too much junk mail, and junk mail is about all I get. If given a choice, I choose digital.  Since parents who prefer paper can still get it, I don't see what all of the fuss is about.

I do, however, think parents need to know that unless they opt out their child, their child is automatically opted in. Some of what your child will be taught in Metro schools unless you opt them out is Gender identity and Sexual orientation. If I had a child in public schools, I would opt them out.

While I think TC is unnecessarily alarmist about a move from paper to digital, I do applaud them for bringing attention to the fact that unless a parent opts out their child, the child is automatically taught some sensitive things the parent may find objectionable. The move from paper to digital is no big deal; the fact that unless you object Metro Schools will indoctrinate your child in gender identity should be. 

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Senator Jack Johnson: I vow to put an END to the mutilation of our kids.

From Senator Jack Johnson;

Friend,

Just last month, we uncovered the truth about the harmful medical procedures Vanderbilt University Medical Center was performing on Tennessee children. 

Doctors were actively manipulating and misguiding young children into undergoing dangerous, irreversible medical procedures all for their own huge profit. 

You and I both know that these procedures are plain WRONG. 

Kids should be able to trust their doctors, but they are instead at the mercy of this destructive ideology.

Last week, we were pleased to learn that VUMC has put a “pause” on these surgeries, but we must be clear: this kind of “medical care” will NOT be tolerated here in Tennessee.

I vowed to put an END to the mutilation of our kids and to do all in my power to ensure we never allow these kinds of practices in our state – but I need your help. 

On October 21, we will gather at the Tennessee State Capitol to send a message to lawmakers everywhere that these horrific practices will not be tolerated in Tennessee or anywhere across America. 

I invite you to join me, Representative William Lamberth and the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh at the Rally to End Child Mutilation to fight back for our kids.

You can find out more information and get your free ticket here. 

This is a fight we must all join in together in order to protect Tennessee’s children and ensure they are never taken advantage of again. 

I hope to see you there,

Jack

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The myth of the ‘stolen country’

 What should the Europeans have done with the New World?

by Jeff Fynn-Paul, The Spectator, September 23, 2020 - Last month, in the middle of the COVID panic, a group of freshmen at the University of Connecticut were welcomed to their campus via a series of online ‘events’. At one event, students were directed to download an app for their phones. The app allowed students to input their home address, and it would piously inform them from which group of Native Americans their home had been ‘stolen’.

​We all know the interpretation of history on which this app is based. The United States was founded by a monumental act of genocide, accompanied by larceny on the grandest scale. Animated by racism and a sense of civilizational superiority, Columbus and his ilk sailed to the New World. They exterminated whomever they could, enslaved the rest, and intentionally spread smallpox in hopes of solving the ‘native question’. Soon afterwards, they began importing slave labor from Africa. They then built the world’s richest country out of a combination of stolen land, wanton environmental destruction and African slave labor. To crown it all, they have the audacity to call themselves a great country and pretend to moral superiority.

​This ‘stolen country’ paradigm has spread like wildfire throughout the British diaspora in recent years. ... What well-meaning liberals do not seem to realize these days is that democracies thrive or fail on the basis of national stories. This is doubly so in republics like the US, where there is no apolitical figurehead to unite people in place of a monarch. In the end, stories are all we’ve got as a glue to cement us together as a society. If that story says that our democracy is rotten to the core, then how do we expect anyone to retain enthusiasm for democracy itself? As history shows time and again, as soon as a republic does not believe in itself and its ideals — that it is better than the tyrannies and autocracies surrounding it — that republic succumbs very quickly to autocracy itself. The riots that have recently erupted across the United States, the new and unaccustomed boldness that characterizes dictators around the globe, attest to the breakdown of the Western democratic order which is being accelerated by these self-inflicted wounds.

​... The narrative of the ‘stolen country’ or ‘Native American genocide’ does not stand up to scrutiny by any honest and clear-sighted historian. It is a dangerously myopic and one-sided interpretation of history. It has only gained currency because most practicing historians and history teachers are either susceptible to groupthink, or else have been cowed into silence by fear of losing their jobs. Reduced to its puerile form of ‘statement of guilt’, this myth puts 100 percent of the burden on Europeans who are held responsible for all historical evil, while the First Nations people are mere victims; martyrs even, whose saintlike innocence presumes that their civilization and society were practically perfect in every way. ... 

Was the land stolen? ,,,, ​First, no matter who ‘discovered’ the New World, it is inevitable that a large proportion of New World inhabitants would have died within the first few decades after first contact. This is universally acknowledged by specialists in the field. The New World population was smaller and more homogenous than the Old World population. Thus, its people had less immunity to disease than the people of the Old World, where disease communities from Africa, Asia and Europe had been intermingling for millennia. Even though some European captains did try and spread smallpox around a few forts and villages from time to time, the effect of their efforts was almost negligible compared with the natural spread of disease. So the claims of genocide by disease have almost nothing to do with European actions, apart from their simply reaching the New World. And of course, Europeans of the time had no way of envisioning the continent-wide epidemic repercussions of their actions. Verdict: not guilty.

​Let us also acknowledge that Native American society was just as warlike as any other in human history. ... (Read more)

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Columbus should be honored, for in so doing, we honor Western civilization.

Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate

By Michael S. Berliner, Ph.D.

Columbus day approaches, but to the "politically correct" this is no cause for celebration. On the contrary, they view the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 as an occasion to be mourned. They have mourned, they have attacked, and they have intimidated schools across the country into replacing Columbus Day celebrations with "ethnic diversity" days.

The politically correct view is that Columbus did not discover America, because people had lived here for thousands of years. Worse yet, it's claimed, the main legacy of Columbus is death and destruction. Columbus is routinely vilified as a symbol of slavery and genocide, and the celebration of his arrival likened to a celebration of Hitler and the Holocaust. The attacks on Columbus are ominous, because the actual target is Western civilization. (link)

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Vanderbilt Agrees To “Pause” Child Mutilation (a.k.a. Gender Affirmation surgeries)

 

For more see:

The Tennessee Conservative: Vanderbilt Agrees To “Pause” Transgender Surgeries On Tennessee Kids

The Tennesseean: Vanderbilt pauses gender affirmation surgery for minors amid backlash

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Cynical Democrats helped fund the worst of the Trumpinistas seeking Republican primaries election.

by Rod Williams, Oct. 8, 2022 - Cynical Democrats helped fund the worst of the Trumpinistas seeking election in Republican primaries, the idea being that if Dems helped the worst of the Republican Trumpinistas win their party's nomination, that in the General Election voters would vote for Democrats instead of demigods. 

Democrat Party organizations, like the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and other Democrat groups and candidates boosted election-denying Republicans in GOP primaries, spending almost $44 million. Donald Trump who held rallies for the candidates he recruited or endorsed has spent almost none of the millions he raised supposedly to help elect Republicans. Apparently, he is saving the money for his own campaign. 

I was hoping that there would be enough sane Republicans that the Democrat ploy would fail; unfortunately, it worked. I am sure that now, many Democrats regret the ploy. Not only did they succeed in nominating Republicans who do not believe in the democratic transfer of power and who would likely support a coup, but many of these Republicans are going to beat their Democrat opponent. The Democrats share the blame for electing the worse the Republicans have to offer. If the next coup attempt succeeds, Democrats share the blame.

A Time's article says that an analysis from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks money in politics, reports that in Pennsylvania, Democratic candidate Josh Shapiro spent $840,000 on ads that helped election denier Doug Mastriano achieve victory in the GOP gubernatorial primary. That is more money than Mastriano spent on himself.  

Mastriano has been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee for his alleged effort to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. If Mastriano wins, he would appoint Pennsylvania’s next secretary of state, whose powers would include certifying the election results in 2024. Not only is Mastriano an election denier, he is also a conspiracy theorist, a supporter of Christian nationalism, and has promoted QAnon. He is a far-right-wing nut. He is not the kind of person who I want holding political office.

This puts a lifelong conservative Republican like me in a bind. On the one hand, I would like to see the Democrat ploy of helping nominate really bad Republicans fail. It would serve Democrats right if these Trumpinistas win.  However, my love of country is greater than my love of party and my disgust with Democrats. While I hate to see the Democrat strategy work, I do not want people who do not support the peaceful transfer of power to be in charge of certifying election results. Defeating people who would likely support the next coup attempt is the most important issue for me in these mid-term elections. 

I just sent a contribution to Josh Shapiro, the Democrat candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania. 

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